Professional Experience:
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) since 1999
- 25 years of pre and post graduate school experience
- Specialty of trauma & dissociation
- EMDR therapist since 2000
- Training in Somatic Experiencing and ego state therapies
- Long-term student of meditation and spiritual study
> Buddhist and Vedic meditation & philosophy
> Mindfulness and self compassion
> Shamanic perspectives and practice
- I’ve worked in a variety of settings including a wilderness therapy program for teens, community mental health, Portland Trauma Recovery, and private practice. I have also received long-term experiential training in parenting from my now 20 year-old son.
- Perhaps even more influential than my professional training, my orientation is informed by my own personal search for what works in navigating healing for myself and others, and the guidance of my spiritual teachers.
Formal Education:
- MSW – Boise State University, ID (1996)
- BA – University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (1990)
- BA – Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA (1984)